#challenging quizzes

[quizbusters]

Join us in the ultimate gift box challenge where you get to choose your gift! Watch as we unbox two mystery gift boxes and see which one you would choose. Who will win the challenge? Find out now! 🎁🤩💝 #chooseyourgift #quiz #quiztime Choose YOUR Gift! 🎁 2 GIFT BOX Challenge 🤩💝 published first on https://www.youtube.com/@Quiz_Busters/

[metal-music-quiz]

An empty feeling haunts my brain, a strange void I can't explain - another time, another space...

Ayreon's album "Into The Electric Castle" came out on this day in 1998!

Warning: the comments may contain spoilers! ;)

Edit: It has been brought to my attention that I forgot to clarify something - the Wikipedia pages about Ayreon and the album itself contradict each other on the topic of the release date, so I resorted to looking into The Metal Archives website (most often the best source), where this one was stated. :)

[valstarsandgalaxies]

Guys, what does this say about me??

I was curious which challengers character would i be, so i did the quiz and this was my result. I kind of expected it, but still. I don't even know who i wanted to be honestly.

Here are the quizzes, if you're also curious to know!!

What challengers character are you?

Which challengers character are you?

@triggerlil i need to know who you are!<3

[ticklystuff]

do yall think aventurine would be into streaming? not like a streamer au but like actually one of his hobbies

[mirrortouchedsea]

Day 12

Hi everyone welcome to my quiz “What ghost from your past haunts you?” I’m super excited for everynyan to take it, please tell me what you got in the comments!! Okay now first question and I know that it’s basic buuuuuuuuuuuut what’s your favorite color? 

> Green 

Oooo great choice great choice. Now, what do your parents do for a living? 

> Community leaders 

Ahaha, someone has important parents I see. How about… have you ever sinned? 

> Many times 

At least you’re honest. Okay just a few more questions now! I can already feel what ghost wants to talk to you ^.^  what’s your dream job? 

> Singer 

Ambitious! Well I’m sure if you try hard enough someone will recognize you. Two more questions now! Oh why did I decide to do this :/ uhm… do you have any siblings. 

> No 

Only child are we? Alright last question before we get to meet your ghost! Do you believe your sins will be forgiven Tatsumi Kazehaya? 

> No 

Your result: Kaname Tojou 

You know exactly what you did, Tatsumi Kazehaya. Kaname Tojou was a young and bright idol who was going to make a name for himself in the industry despite everything and you ruined it. Do you stay awake at night wondering what he felt in his final moments? Do you ever regret what you did to him? Kaname Tojou still haunts your every waking moment and he wants to know why you never came back for him. How does it feel, Tatsumi Kazehaya? He loved you and you abandoned him. 

Comments: 

From: alkapriest 

What an…interesting quiz. 

Reply to alkapriest from kanatoj 

Tatsumi-senpai, please come back. 

[theuniversitychallengereview]

Dopamining

Yesterday I listened to a podcast about dopamine and the other 'feel-good' brain hormones oxytocin, seratonin and endorphins. It feels kind of like cheating to include endorphins as a single thing when there are actually a bunch of different endorphins, but it means you get to use the cool acronym DOSE so I can't begrudge the neuroscientists too much for it. Or should it be the neuropsychologists? The brain people.

We all know that we are on our phones far too much, and yet we continue to be on our phones far too much.

The little dopmaine hit you get from reading a tweet or scrolling TikTok or watching a hundred Instagram reels is a lot easier to get than the satisfaction you get from reading a book or practicing guitar, and it staves off the boredom that arises if you just sit there with, god forbid, nothing to do but think.

But you are never satisfied when you stop watching the Instagram reels, or when you finish a session of playing 5-minute blitz chess matches while waiting for the bus. You always want more. If you've played five matches you want to play five more. If you've watched thirty reels you want to watch thirty more.

This feeling then carries over into the moments when we are not on our phones too, because we have crashed our supply of dopamine meaning that it is harder to achieve the non-phone-based things we want to do, like cooking dinner or building a spreadsheet. So we go back on our phone and order something from Deliveroo then play a few more games of chess while we're waiting for the food to arrive.

We started the day with the intention of planning a holiday and assembling a bookshelf, but after we woke up and spent twenty minutes on YouTube shorts there was no motivation left for anything else.

Why, then, am I telling you this when I have posted this article on Twitter with the intention of hijacking your attention for the brief fix of a University Challenge review?

Because I am part of the problem too.

I am trying to steal your dopamine for my own selfish social media ambitions, to steal your motivation and get you hooked on these reviews just like Facebook is. The only difference is that I haven't used your data to become a billionaire.

So if you've come to me from Twitter then get off here now - leave your phone and your headphones behind and go find the nearest tree. Stare at it, touch it if you like, then come back and tell me how you feel.

Ah, I forgot one step - subscribe to the blog so that you don't need to rely on Twitter's increasingly spiteful algorithm to find me. Instead I will arrive fully formed in your email inbox and you can read me at your leisure.

Sign up for The University Challenge Review

Next week we can deal with oxytocin, but for now, let's get on with the episode.

Darwin College, Cambridge vs Birkbeck.

This is Darwin's third appearance on the Challenge, losing a tight semi-final to St Edmund Hall on their debut in 2019. Birkbeck won the trophy in 2003, but didn't appear again until 2020, and they have made two quarter-finals since then

Here's your first starter for ten

Darwin captain Whitaker takes the opening points with Where Angels Fear To Tread, setting the tone for the rest of the match. His team is made up of three women, and the Birkbeck team also has two women, meaning that the men are numerically outnumbered, which is quite a rare occurrence.

The picture starter also goes to Whitaker. That's three for him - it's going to get more difficult to keep trackas the show goes on.

Van Onzenoort bounces back for Birkbeck with elasticity, and they mixed up their answers on glass-making processes, giving super-cooling twice rather than tempering and annealing. A second for Van Onzenoort wins Birkbeck a bonus set on Sicilian foods, including one on cakes which Skidmore isn't much help on because he's 'not that into cakes'.

Hamilton gives Whitaker his fourth starter of the night, and Max Factor (who was apparently a real person, after whom the makeup brand is named) continues his streak.

Evans takes the music starter with Frank Sinatra, but they can't maintain the momentum and Whitaker returns with David Hume.

Van Onzenoort keeps Birkbeck in it with Bayes, and Evans grabs the second picture starter to close the gap even further. When Moorthy takes her first points with All Quiet on the Western Front they are only 25-points behind.

Whitakeover

But it is at this stage that Whitaker takes complete control of the match for Darwin, with four starters back to back on a wide variety of subjects (Venus, Albanian refugees in Italy, Salisbury Cathedral and the 800s).

Have you been counting? I might have missed one out so I'll just tell you - he finished with eleven (11!) starters, which is the highest of the series so far.

He was also the only person on his team to get a starter, which might be a record of some sort. Look out for him in the next round!

Darwin 205 - 110 Birkbeck

I hadn't realised quite how impressive Whitaker was until I saw all of his plaudits on social media, but eleven starters is a stonking performance, and Birkbeck couldn't keep up with him at all.

In fact, his points from starters alone would have tied Birkbeck's total.

See you next week (by which time you'll all have subscribed so you don't have to crash your dopamine supplies on Twitter) for Durham vs Oriel, a rematch of the 2000 Grand Final.

[komikudikentalendo]

Woohoo wings go whoosh whoosh

[bookwyrminspiration]

Day 2 of the Keeper Challenge on Shannon’s IG, there's a How Well Do You Know These Characters' Abilities? quiz! It's 10 questions, all multiple choice. As soon as you click it accepts your answer, so careful not to misclick! I got 10/10 and think many of you will as well, have fun!

[mundanemeowart]

[bg-sparrow]

Hey, come take my Back to the Future test! It spans just the three films (no game, comics, etc), and I guarantee you and your friends have NEVER taken a more challenging BttF quiz! Have fun!

[quizbusters]

#pickonekickone #wouldyourather #giftboxchallenge #quizchallenge Choose your gift 🎁🤩💝 2 gift box challenge #wouldyourather #pickonekickone #giftboxchallenge published first on https://www.youtube.com/@Quiz_Busters/

[metal-music-quiz]

PowerSymphonic Metal Thursday #4

This time a more difficult one (I'd say that the band is a neither very popular, nor unknown example of the genre)! :D

As always, I'll reveal the band's name in the comments tomorrow.

[tartt9]

𝚆𝙷𝙸𝙲𝙷 𝚁𝙾𝙼𝙰𝙽𝙲𝙴 𝚃𝚁𝙾𝙿𝙴 𝙰𝚁𝙴 𝚈𝙾𝚄 ?  

— hurt/comfort.

damn you really need a hug, huh? how many times have you bottled up your emotions feeling like you had no one to turn to other than yourself? you really want the type of love where they care about you despite your struggles and help you to move past them. you probably hate physical touch but at the same time you desperately crave it. the idea of someone tending to your wounds or hugging you as you sob into their chest is so appealing to you because for once in your life you want to feel like someone actually cares about your wellbeing. wouldn't be surprised if your favourite genre of fanfiction was heart shattering angst

tagged by: @heartsbreaking thank you !!! <33 tagging: @bekeeley @shegunner @mcadoo5 (yes bug do it twice threat) @pnkb1tch @muchojoy @wroteful + you if you wanna do it :)))

[moonlightpirate]

So much that needs to be done today legit so little desire to do it 😴

[sporclechezchunklets]

And another new quiz! I'm actually pretty proud of this one -- I know a heck of a lot more about world rivers, and their representation in art, than I did when I started making this quiz. Which is one of the lovely things about Sporcle: one learns very interesting things!